range

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Singular
range

Plural
ranges

range (plural ranges)

  1. Line or series of mountains.
  2. Large fuel-burning stove.
  3. Selection, array. Eg: A range of cars.
  4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
    1. An area for military training or equipment testing.
  5. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
    We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
    One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.
    1. Maximum range of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
    This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
  6. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  7. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
  8. (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
  9. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
    Jones has good range for a big man.
  10. (music) Compass - The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  11. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.

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  • (values a function can obtain): domain

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  • (values a function can obtain): codomain

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Infinitive
to range

Third person singular
ranges

Simple past
ranged

Past participle
ranged

Present participle
ranging

to range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)

  1. (intransitive) (followed by over) or (transitive) To travel over (an area, etc) with a particular purpose.
  2. (intransitive) (mathematics, computing; followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
    The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
  3. (transitive) classify

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[edit] Etymology

Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century.

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range

  1. strict
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